According to the Mayan calendar -- or, more accurate, what ridiculous disaster movies have said about the Mayan calendar -- the world will end in December of 2012. And if that's the case, well, at least we'll get to see some awesome movies first.
It was announced last week that Warner Bros. Pictures had signed a new deal with IMAX to release 20 upcoming films over the next three years in the giant-sized format. That's big news on its own, but that wasn't the real bombshell: included on the lists of titles was "Batman 3," with a release date set for July 20, 2012.
Christopher Nolan, director of "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight," stated this past March that he was planning to finish his Bat-trilogy with a final movie. But this is the first time a release date has been established. After the last movie brought in just over $1 billion worldwide, anticipation for another movie has been sky high. Still, there are some other giant movies coming in the summer of 2012 to be plenty excited about as well.
The summer '12 movie season will kick off with "The Avengers," the movie that will bring together Marvel Comics' biggest heroes. Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, and the Hulk will team up in a massive movie opening the first weekend of May. Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson are definitely on board for the flick, which will reportedly be directed by "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" creator Joss Whedon.
If that's not enough comic book action for you, the Fourth of July weekend will bring Spider-Man back to the big screen. Directed by the appropriately named Marc Webb, the movie will be a franchise restart, sending Peter Parker back to high school. No casting announcements have been made for that movie yet, but it will be in 3D.
Of course, there will be sequels that summer, and leading the pack will be the next installment of "Star Trek." With J.J. Abrams' 2009 reboot having earned 2 1/2 times more money than any previous "Trek" movie, it was inevitable that his young Enterprise crew would return for another mission.
Next Year's Blockbusters: None of this is to say that the summer of 2011 won't have giant movies as well. It was just announced that the prequel "X-Men: First Class" will bring Marvel's mutants back to theaters. Thor and Captain America will get their own solo movies before joining "The Avengers." Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack Sparrow in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides." A third "Transformers" movie is planned for the July 4th holiday. Animation can't avoid sequels either, with Pixar's "Cars" and DreamWorks' "Kung Fu Panda" getting second movies. And the last half of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will mark the boy wizard's final big-screen adventure.
The Warner Bros./IMAX deal also includes other impressive movies that don't have release dates yet. They include "Gravity," a sci-fi drama with Robert Downey Jr., "Dark Shadows," with Johnny Depp as a vampire, "Fury Road," the revamp of the "Mad Max" series, and a new take on "Superman" that Christopher Nolan is also producing. But before any of that, Nolan's next film as a director, "Inception" with Leonardo DiCaprio, will unspool on IMAX and regular screens this July 16.
And if the Mayans were right about the world ending in December of 2012, let's hope it won't be until after the release of "The Hobbit." The prequel to "The Lord of the Rings" is set to roll out on IMAX screens that month. The apocalypse will be much easier to take if we get to see that movie first.
Trailer for' Inception': Release Summer of 2010
Hi Girls! This is "anonymous" from the Boreanz post down below. My name is Lina and I love your blog. Been reading it on and off for awhile.
ReplyDeleteNow, as much as I love a good movie, if the world is about to end in 2012...wouldn't it be better to spend that money on ways to get off this planet? Or figure out how this world is going to end and try to stop it?
That's just me though...
TGIF. This has been the week from hell!
Hi Lina
ReplyDeleteGlad to have you also glad you like us.
We are trying to get the word out about how to save our planet.
We are a fun blog anything and everything goes you name it and we talk about it. No certain topic, maybe you might join in the conservation we'll be glad to have you.
It's good you have the weekend off.See you later and tune in and chat.....CC
PIc...left you a note in drafts..
ReplyDeletePIC...Meeting # 2
Now I got to do my post on old Al and his gun ,
Hi Pic. Got your note. Boy that was a tense meeting. People ready to bash each other's heads in.
ReplyDeleteYou've got dad on one hand who wants out now, the brothers and their kids who want five or six more years and then you have the most reasonable brother from Reno who suggests six or seven months which sounds like a good compromise.I should think Dad would be agreeable to that.These things do take a little time.
Aunt Mae sounds a lot like Dad.
HI PIC
ReplyDeleteDad says 6/7 months is fine.
ReplyDeleteAunt Mae is a lot like dad and Shirley said she was full of her Vodka or Gin or maybe both.
HI PIC.How's tricks???
ReplyDeleteI have a lot more to tell you it will be going on Saturday and start up again Monday. I will be there, and aunt Mae talked about Leon's woman don't have a backbone.
ReplyDeleteAunt Mae had a snootful??? Six or seven years was a little too much to ask.Life is weird. Dad may or may not have that long. (God forbid)
ReplyDeleteHow's Nana? I know Brian is in fine spirits. Has he come thru doing his jiggle dance?
ReplyDeleteNo backbone is only one of her problems. Then there is the question of her intelligence, not to mention tact, diplomacy, gratitude etc.
ReplyDeleteThe video is great.
ReplyDeleteLike Lina says if they know the world going to end 2012 let us in on their secret I think they say December 21, 2012, right.
When the naked man visited the hidy-hole tonite I thought he was carrying an umbrella or a big flashlight. But no, he was just very glad to see me and the big flashlight was skin colored.
ReplyDeleteI took Nana shopping today. She is very weak and her heart is giving her more problems but she insisted on going. She was a good girl.
ReplyDeleteDad had heart attack about 4/5 years ago, it wasn't major just a warning to slow down and you are saying the same thing Gil told him.
ReplyDeleteGil told him awhile back that he's 82 and whatever time he has left he should live it to the fullest.
Nana has a strong will and I'm glad she has such a loving and caring daughter, Nana knows her little "GENIE" will always be there as long as she need her.
ReplyDeleteBrian is a very smart guy, he just wanted to prepare you of what's in store for you. Damn girl he may start giving you your Mother's day present the whole weekend.[giggles]
ReplyDeleteThe man with the big flashlight or whatever pulled me into the bedroom and I am now basking in the afterglow.And he has a big smile on his face and is very proud of himself.And his flashlight or whatever is a lot smaller now.
ReplyDelete[giggles] Enjoy it girl the man belongs to only you but remember the flashlight can grow bei at a moment's notice...HA !
ReplyDeleteThe flashlight is the kind that is easy to turn on...HA!
ReplyDeleteNan says Betts trys to act like me. Nan says she told the heifer I've been this way all my life what comes up just come out.
ReplyDeleteHave you flash him yet? I bet you'll take him by surprise.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have to flash anything. I just got lucky.
ReplyDeleteI have a gangster post in drafts. When we start talkng about the mob something about them always come up.
ReplyDeleteLucky hell! The "ROCK" just like poking you.
ReplyDeleteDad knew when he announced he wanted out right now, that he was throwing the cat among the pigeons,everyone would object strenuously. But if he had offered them a reasonable amount of time, no one would have hustled their ass to accommodate him.
ReplyDeleteYou are right about that one and he has some tough looking guys here to back his play. Aunt Mae says that if it was't for dad most of them may be dead like her hubby.
ReplyDeleteShe says she can tell me some things, but a lot I will have to fine out on my own. Dhe says I wil have to write down what dad says because I will only get it from him in bits and pieces.She says there's a lot of secrets in the family.
Wow! I hope someone is writing it all down. What a story.Gil is writing the book, right?
ReplyDeleteMae's hubby was a mob hit???
ReplyDeleteI invited Lina to chat with us if she would like to.
ReplyDeleteI thought I had a crazy family, but they leave us standing still in the wind.
Betts didn't like it when aunt Mae asked Nan to stand and spoke highly of her, boy she was boiling and red as a beet.
Nan deserves the kudos. Betts is more of a hinderance than a help.
ReplyDeleteYes it was a hit.
ReplyDeleteNo Gil isn't writing the book. He's trying to make senxe out of mine and he says when this is over he will have more time.
He aslo says if he write a boook about dad it will be after he dies.
I told him someone could write it as fiction and use other names and he say sure they could and he says that's the way James Patterson write his books in the second party.
How's Jaye's book coming???
ReplyDeleteI wish I could write, I would start them out in N.O. and have them fooling with all sorts of things, I would have someone trying to get the lowdown on them.
Yes, he does not have to name names. He can write it in the second person, although a true account would sell better for a first book. You should always write about what you know. A professor told me that a long time ago. Once you are established as a writer you have more poetic licence.
ReplyDeleteAunt Mae always said Gil never wanted to be associated with his family's business.
ReplyDeleteHe says when he write the book it will only be about how his father man it up in the world,he will mention some of the things but he's really writing it for his family history, he says being a child of someone connected to the mob is not a easy life.
Jaye's book is going slow. Angeli, Jaye's author friend, is under contract to produce three books in a certain length of time so she has had no time to spend with Jaye. The book is stalled. Angeli wants Jaye to go down to California to her house and spend several weeks so they can blitz the book.Jaye has children and can't. But Angeli could come up here and spend a couple of weeks at Jaye's trailer at the lake.It's a huge trailer with two bedrooms,very luxurious and Angeli would love it. She has no kids. Then Jaye could see her kids whenever she needed to.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine how hard it is for Gil.No matter how hard he tries he can not escape the fact that his dad is connected. He may always feel a bit tainted by it.
ReplyDeleteHope Angeli could come up, it would do her a lot of good to spend time on the lake, Jaye would be be worried the whole while she's away from her boys.
ReplyDeleteHe do feel tainted in a way, but he says his kids will be far removed from it.
ReplyDeleteHe says he thankful he had great parents, he got his brains from his mama and how to make money from his dad, he loves that old man.You would laugh your butt off, dad minds Gil like Jill do and Gilly don't mind anyone. Sis says Gil has 5 kids with Sha.
We'll see what happens this summer.It's hard to tackle a big project like that when you are nearly 4,000 miles apart. They grew up in the same town here in Canada and were good friends. Then Angeli's father who was some kind of rocket scientist was transferred to California and they moved away and she and Jaye lost touch with each other until last year when they found each other on Facebook. They were so delighted because they had loved each other.They have stayed in close touch ever since.
ReplyDeleteI seen on the cover of Globe today that Obmama was caught in a hotel with a woman and Michelle is furious and raising hell.
ReplyDeleteI don't belive the Obama rumor. It's bullshit. Can't they come up with something more original than that??
ReplyDeleteIt will work itself out it just take a little time.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Jaye write a children's book ..or thought about writing one.
I don't put much stock in Globe,other mags would have had that story, top news, better that the Tiger/Jesse shit.Thats why I never brought one about the Charles /Camille..I didn't see it anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteI think that is on the agenda too. Although Angeli has written a few children's books. She sent them to Jakey when he was sick, along with books from some of her author friends.
ReplyDeleteAre you still going out to dinner Mother's Day if the weather is nice???
ReplyDeleteIf Angeli can get the other books out the way, I bet she will come for awhile and they will have it right back on track. Good things always come you just have to have patience.
ReplyDeleteThe weather sucks.It is cold and rainy but I am going to dinner And Peter is bringing his mom, my auntie Bubs. So with the twins it will be a small but cosy dinner party.
ReplyDeleteWhat are your plans for MOther's day??
ReplyDeleteI'll tell Jaye to be patient. I think those girls are destined to work together. Jaye is a good writer. She was a journalist for years and then became the editor of a newspaper.She has won writing awards and so has Angeli. Some pretty good stuff should come out of those girls.
Wonderful...Thats the best kind of party...you always enjoyed you aunt Bubs and you know the twins will make the party.
ReplyDeleteNan/James...Gil/ Me and the kids are going to have a nice dinner and then the 7 of us is just going to hang out at my house, Nan/James will spend the night.
Not to worry it's their destiny to have a good book after all these years they are back together again.
ReplyDeleteI remember you telling us about Jaye being an editor and awards, I know you are very proud.
They say they have a very nice place to carry us it's about 20/30 miles out of town.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds nice.Exactly where you should be on mother's day. What about Sis?
ReplyDeleteI have a post in drafts about Al Capone's gun for sale...will you edit it and post it, you won't have to worry about a post tonight.
ReplyDeleteIf you have a little time you can go and visit Rusty's site.
Sis will be coming but you know dad hads to bring her in the Limo.
ReplyDeleteMac asked dad did he need him to drive and he said no enjoy his wife he'll get another driver.
Jill told me she was going to wear a pretty dress to dinner, I almost cried, she hates dresses
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a fascinating post. Can't wait to read it.
ReplyDeleteI have to get up early for a hockey game tomorrow so I will say good night. I'll do a post about Mother's day or put up a Mother's day card to all the mothers in the world.
Anyway have a wonderful Mother'a Day.Congratulations on being a great mother.
Enjoy your weekend.
I'll see you at the mob's Mother's day party.I'll be the broad with a gun in her knickers. I won't tell you where I keep the bullets....Luv & Hugs...PIC
Awwww! Bless Jill's little heart.It just makes you want to hug and squeeze them till they squeak.
ReplyDeletePIC you are so bad...I bet you would have a gun in your knickers you and aunt Mae woulld make a great pair.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the Hockey game and Hhope Sammy is the goalie and they win, most important is how you play the game.
Enjoy your special day and I will be waiting for you with aunt Mae's cane.
Goodnight sweetie the Rock is waiting HA!
GOODNITE ...SWEER DREAMS..LUV...PIC
Kiss the "ROCK"